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Extra, Extra: Radical Ridings, and a Pretty Popular Parade
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- According to reported estimates, 50,000 Sikhs attended yesterday’s Khalsa Day parade. The festivities also attracted campaigning politicians, setting the scene for a highly publicized handshake between Jack Layton and Michael Ignatieff. The first Khalsa Day festival in Toronto took place in 1986, and today the holy day’s parade is the city’s third largest.
- BIXI, the public bike-sharing program that’s already found success in Montreal and other cities, is set to launch in Toronto on May 3. For those still on the fence about whether to participate in the program, one curious person has done some research into BIXI and even visited its headquarters in Montreal. See the results here. The company plans to host 1,000 bicycles at 80 stations in downtown Toronto.
- As a companion to its wildly popular Vote Compass, the CBC has created an interactive map that shows which ridings had the strongest reactions, either positive or negative, to the various questions asked in the Vote Compass survey. Not surprisingly, Toronto ridings appear on the survey’s top 10 most passionate lists for a lot of the questions, particularly those about social issues. How did your riding fare?
- Word is out today that some of Toronto’s school bus drivers might go on strike soon. Members of CAW Local 4268 have been negotiating with Stock Transportation since last September. On April 20, they voted in favour of a strike, which could begin as soon as this Thursday.
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